I believe federal government, public, civil service employees at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard and all across this nation define and defend our national security morning, noon and night by performing the people’s business.

“The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States.”

That shipyard has been defining and defending national security for approximately 213 years now and shall continue to do so, provided our present dysfunctional U.S. Congress is kept in check by the people of these United States.

Congress is supposed to be performing the people’s business, not giving the people the business.

With the minion remnants of the so-called Tea Party still imploding from within the Republican GOP majority of the present House of Representatives it is no wonder as to why one would come to feel our present Republican majority of the U.S. Congress is somewhat to say the least dysfunctional, as well as possibly brinking on the edge of treason, in my common-man opinion.

If you believe, as I do, you may realize gutting big government with this crowd is their #1 charge.

The folks over at the shipyard all work for big government; they have been backing up their bragging rights for almost 213 years now defining and defending national security.

It is not the big government dry docks, nor is it the big government cranes ... not the clock tower ... no, it is not the big government tracks leading to and under the Sarah Long Bridge and beyond from our shipyard ... nor is it the tools, the resources and equipment, the security fences, the gates, no it’s not the water tower that so proudly beams U.S.N. while sitting high above the horizon looking over the open sea ...

Nor is it the power plant that blows the whistle from the highest smoke stack on our shipyard that makes that place the big government “Gold Standard”.

It is the people, the women and men that go there everyday to perform the people’s business that make Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, America’s “Crown Jewel,” the so called “Gold Standard.” The people ... devoted, committed, faithful, very well highly trained and qualified government workers have made that happen and still do make that happen daily, 24/7 not only at our shipyard but all across this nation.

Faithful government employees, civil servants give it their best for our sailors, to protect soldiers, for our country, and for our national security ... while some in Congress are day trading on the peoples’ dime.

Kind of makes a commoner like myself, wonder, exactly who does the present majority in the U.S. Congress work for? Who are they representing? What team do they play for? TEAM USA?

I don’t believe they are looking out for the bests interests of our own people, not at all, not one bit as a matter of opinion.

I also do indeed believe they are all just running for their next election.

Our framers and founders of this nation must be trying to stand up in their graves let alone rolling over.

If you also believe, as I do, you too probably realize it is the people of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, along with those at all our other public shipyards, our communities, our counties and surely our states, they are the ones who are going to be mortally wounded by the refusal of those in Congress to do their jobs and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States, instead of looking out for their own self serving interests and those of their corporate sponsors.

In my common-man opinion, I furthermore believe, the U.S. Congress should be forced to be furloughed and loose 20 % of their salaries, not be allowed to set up escrow accounts for themselves either.

Without the people who have and still do work there, that shipyard is nothing, just a rock, a piece of history, lost, long forgotten, left behind by misguided, self serving lifelong career US Congressional politicians, who I believe, created, designed and manufactured all the problems we face today as a nation ... it has taken years to do so, however, they are the ones who have done just that ... again, that is just my common man opinion.

Politicians from both parties in DC ... created, designed and funded Sequestration, just like they did the BRAC process.

Sequestration has the potential to be 10 times worse than BRAC could ever be.

In closing, I furthermore in all my heart do believe those belt-way lobbyists coddling suit coats and ties occupying seats in the present U.S. House of Representatives (the majority of them) would not think twice to just pull the plug on our shipyard along with the plug to our nation.

I do believe, that is where they are headed. Shame on the present majority in our US Congress.

Portsmouth Naval Shipyarders know who our shipyarders play for.

Who exactly does the present majority in the U.S. Congress play for? And why in the heck are we still paying them?

I say let’s replace the present majority in Congress with shipyarders; we’ll show them how to perform the people’s business.